Google and Facebook's "fake news" ban is a welcome nail in the coffin of "software objectivity"
by Cory Doctorow from on (#21PM1)
In the wake of the Trump election -- a triumph of fake news -- both Google and Facebook have announced that they will take countermeasures to exclude "fake news" from their services, downranking them in the case of Facebook and cutting them off from ad payments in Google's case. (more")